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Definition of East River
1. Noun. A tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of East River
Literary usage of East River
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1905)
"The footbridge for building the cables of the new East River bridge. ... New (The)
East river bridge: its present condition shown photographically. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It may be true, that the master of the Syracuse, after he got his boat off the
Battery with her tow, in making the turn to go up the East river, was unable ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"DESIGN FOK A BRIDGE ACROSS THE East River, NEW YORK, AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND.
IT is proper to say that the design for a bridge crossing the East River at ..."
4. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts, Peter Sluyter (1913)
"But before we part from the East River, we must briefly describe it. We have
already remarked that it is incorrect to call this stream a river, ..."
5. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"The cables of the New East River Bridge No. 2, also designated as " The Williamsburg
Bridge," are novel in other respects. They are the largest suspension ..."
6. United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic Coast. Part IV. From Point Judith to New by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Herbert Gouverneur Ogden, John Ross, Herbert Cornelius Graves, Harry L. Ford (1899)
"Lawrence Point lies on the eastern side of the East River channel opposite ...
Hell Gate is the name of the part of East River south of Wards Island and ..."
7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"The Chelsea was at anchor in the Wallabout bay, with the schooner Louisa made
fast upon her starboard side ; she was destined with her tow down East River ..."
8. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register For by Horace Greeley (1901)
"Л2 and 13, and within and bounded by a line beginning at East 14th-st. and the
East River, and running thence along East 14th-st.f Irving Place, ..."
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